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I'm wondering what advice or experience with keeping or storing childhood toys and such. Do you keep anything from your childhood? If so what, and what do you do with it/them? Do you put it out where you can see it? Do you store it in a cardboard box? Do you carefully put it in a plastic tub for preservation? Do you keep a lot or a little? Do you keep all in a collection? Or just your favorites? Or nothing at all? Would like to hear what others have done. Thanks.
I had sticks, rocks, sand, trees to climb, a hay loft, a bicycle and a slingshot.
Sold the bike when I was a kid.
Broke the slingshot.
Everything else just kind of stayed were they were (or wherever I threw them when I was done with them at the end of the day).
Edit to add: Thought about it more. I did have some Tonka trucks. Gave them to some young cousins who destroyed them which I didn't think possible.
I still have a piggy bank that my grandmother made me. That's it. My dad sold all of my childhood items in a garage sale when my parents divorced. I didn't think anything of it when I was 12, now I wish I had some items. Some big items were a lot of my Lego sets. He sold them and said that I was getting too old to play with Legos anymore. Funny thing is, here I am in my mid 30s and I still buy and play with Legos.
I have one item left from my childhood but the rest were destroyed when our home burned to the ground.
Same thing here. I had about 4 cardboard boxes of various things my mother started saving when I was a kid that I kept going. Concert ticket stubs, a sandal that was duct taped (long story), molds of my teeth, dog collar, baby blanket ..... never saved any toys. All gone though.
When were you a child? Or rather, what decade are your old toys? Sixties and before toys and dolls can be very collectible.
Sealed plastic tubs may not be the best environment for your old toys - mold can form from lack of air circulation. Try wrapping things in acid-free tissue paper or all-cotton fabric (old pillow cases and sheets work well), then storing them in a plastic tub with the top resting in place but not clamped down firmly. That way will allow them to breathe. Similarly, basements and attics are not good places for this kind of storage, either - basements can be damp, while attics' temperature varies widely, from extreme heat to very cold, all of which can cause damage. Try a flat box beneath the bed, or in a ground-level or second floor closet instead.
There are books and websites devoted to old toys - take a look and identify what you have, make note of condition issues, if any - and then decide if you want to keep all or some of your playthings, sell them, give them away or donate them, etc. Pitching them may be a very bad idea - but you'll need to figure out what you have first of all.
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